Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-19
MONTANA NOTES.

MONTANA NOTES.
Virginia City has a five-footed pig.
Bozeman will soon have the electric ligh
system.
The K. Of L. Of Helena will give a gran,
masquerade tonight.
The pub bile schools of Mlssoula Count,
are closed for want of funds.
Virginia City held her municipal election
last. week. julius Kohls was eletcet
Mayor.
Reports from all over the Territory saw
that losses to the cattle industry will b
very heavy.
Several of the Territorial Councilme,
have called and paid their respects to Gov
ernor Leslie.
Ex-Governor Hauser has gone east to b,
absent several weeks. Most OF his time will
be spent in New York.
Hay is quoted at $25 per ton in Livin,
ston, says the Enterprise. A great many
OF the cattle are believing for it..
A cowboy who arrived from the nortf
Saturday says he saw forty-ive dead cat
tie in one coulee.-Billings Gazette.
The office of Territorial Auditor is worth
$3.50 per year-according to the report
of J. P. Woolman, Territorial Auditor.
Thu Helena Street Car company are hav
ing a hard time OF it in e~ndeavoring to keer
the road open to the depot from the city.
The Helena Bar Association will meet to
day at the office of Toole d Wallace, fol-
the purpose of considering the House bill
tor the codi6cation OF the statutes of Mon.
tana.
The Helena fire department will soor
have erected for them a hose tower which
will be sixty feet high. When completed i,
will be used for washing and drying thu
hose after a fire.
It is said that the Union Pacific ano
Northern Pacific will issue no more compli
mentary passes as soon as the lnter-Stat.
bill becomes a law. We guess Montana
editors will have to walk.
In the Sweet Grass country in Gallatir
County, the condition of sheepi is said to bf
very bad. The hay is about all fed and the
ranges are so that sheep can get no feed
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Charley Fox, the stage driver of the Ben.
ton coach, who was caught out in a biz
zard and abandoned his coach near TWEEN.
ty-eight Mile Springs not long since, has
just had his fingers a%mputated.
The coroner's jury in the MCGEE case in
Helena censured the proprietor of the Cen
trail Beer Hall for allowing men while in a
state OF intoxication to handle kerosene
lamps. The matter will be brought up be-
fore the city council.
David j. Waters, a pioneer in the terri
tory n a miner, aged 60 years, was
found dead in his cabin near Virginia City
a few days ago. He had been dead several
days when found and it is supposed that
he died from natural causes.-Enterprise.
Cattle are eating sage b. ush and appear
to relish it very much. This is a sign that
they are becoming thoroughly native-the
only thing they now need to cultivate is the
cayuse taste for cottonwood bark, and
then ye winds can blow.-Stockgrowers
Journal.
William Ennis, Otis C.. Whitney and
Henry S. RibIet, trustees of the Ennis
School District, Madison County, and
Samuel R. Smith, clerk OF the board,
were arrested last week or the charge Of
misapprosriating the school funds of the
Observation-Disclosures.
Bruce Wallace, the Montana candidate
Tor West Point, has successfully passed his
six months examination and is in q fair
way to go through the course and graduate.
He is said to have been the only one of
four Territorial candidates who was sue
cessful at the examination.-Herald.
Richard Dabney lately had several car
louds OF Iowa cattle held here for inspec-
ton. DR.. Keefer, the Territorial Veterin-
arian, failing to respond on account of the
appointment OF Holloway to his position,
Governor Leslie took the matter in charge
and granted relief at once.-Enterprise.
Agent Williamson, of the Grow Indians,
is a~ntagonistic to throwing the reservation
open to settlement. While East lately he
purchased a number of blooded horses and
cattle for the Indians to improve their
stock with. The agent must be in with the
Indians in raising cattle On the reserva-
ton.
Councilman Sutherlia received a letter
yesterday from Judith Basin, written a
week ago, which described the condition of
stock in that locality as very bad. The
snow was about twenty inches deep and
crusted. The loss up to that time was
mentioned as twenty per cent.-probably
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
County Attorney Sam Wildly has entered
complaint against nine Grow Indians for
killing cattle belonging to Ryan Brothers, |
at ] Junction City. The Christian names OF
the Indians have not been obtained, but
the killing was done openly, and it is
thought they will be identified. The sheriff
has zone after them.-Glendive Times.
A private telegram from Fort Benton re-
ceived by a Helena gentleman on Sunday,
gave the following prices of staples in that
town: Flour, 81 per sack; coal, $50 to $50 |
per ton; green willow wood, $50 per cord: |
potatoes not to be had at any price. Coun.
Gilman Collins learned yesterday that -four
was SO per sack. These are regular famine
prices.
1t is considered SO certain that the first
big thaw will food Miles City, as it did in
The spring of 1881, that Mayor B%orchardt
has written to the Custer representatives
1T Helena, asking them to introduce q bill
permitting the county commissioners to
assume and pay all expenses for relief of
The many families that will be rendered
1omeless.-Ga1ette.
Mountain lions are becoming 80 numer-
BUS in the National Park hat their foot
prints are always seen wherever bands Of
Tx, deer or buffalo are feeding. These hun
Try and ferocious beasts are gathering in /
rom all the n%eighboring Territories to find
natural food where their human COM
are excluded. The law OF nature ia
nexorable. The carnivora will increase
wherever their gramnivorous victims multi